Abstract: Preston Sturges (1898-1959) was a inventor, playwright and motion picture writer and director. He wrote the hit Broadway play,
Strictly dishonorable (1929), and received a Academy Award for his screenplay,
The great McGinty (1940). He lived in Europe for a period of time during the 1950s, and wrote and directed his last film in France in 1955.
The collection consists of film scripts, production material, and correspondence related to Sturges' career.

Language: Finding aid is written in
English.

Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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Born August 29, 1898 in Chicago as Edmond Preston Biden; inventor of kissproof lipstick for mother's cosmetic company; wrote
hit Broadway play,
Strictly dishonorable, 1929; moved to Hollywood, 1933; worked as screenwriter, and beginning in 1940 as a writer-director of satiric comedies;
Academy Award for screenplay
The great McGinty, 1940; left Paramount Pictures in 1944, and had a short business association with Howard Hughes, founding California Pictures
in mid-1940s; lived in Europe for a period of time during the 1950s, writing and directing his last film in France in 1955;
died in New York of heart attack on August 6, 1959.

Scope and Content

Collection consists of film scripts, production material, and correspondence related to Sturges' career as a playwright and
motion picture writer and director.

Organization and Arrangement

Arranged in the following series:

Film productions.

Production material.

Business and personal material.

Correspondence.

Production scrapbooks.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.